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This article just crossed my feed, and boy, I sure have some opinions about it. Starting with "well, at least evolutionary anthropologists aren't economists, but there are a LOT of problematic assumptions that I don't have time to unpack right now." I haven't read the study yet, just the press release, though. Maybe the paper fixes my problems. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolution-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html